Pulitzer Prize 2024 winners announced

In the US, the winners of the 2024 Pulitzer Prizes have been announced.

The winners in the book categories were:

Fiction

• Night Watch (Jayne Anne Phillips, Fleet)

Nonfiction

• A Day in the Life of Abed Salama (Nathan Thrall, Allen Lane)

Biography (joint winners)

• King: The life of Martin Luther King (Jonathan Eig, S&S)
• Master Slave Husband Wife: An epic journey from slavery to freedom (Ilyon Woo, 37 Ink)

Memoir/autobiography

• Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A sister’s search for justice (Cristina Rivera Garza, Hogarth)

History

• No Right to an Honest Living: The struggles of Boston’s Black workers in the civil war era (Jacqueline Jones, Basic Books)

Poetry

• Tripas: Poems (Brandon Som, Georgia Review Books).

More information about this year’s winners and finalists can be found on the Pulitzer Prize website.

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